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Humphrey the M5 Camel

A homemade carnival float that never left its Somerset field

Humphrey the M5 Camel

Built in 1980 from an oil drum and chicken wire for a Bridgwater Young Farmers’ carnival float, Humphrey has stood ever since in a field off the M5 between Junctions 23 and 24 in Somerset — outliving the parade he was built for by four decades. Commuters dress him for the seasons and mail him Christmas cards addressed simply to “The Camel.”

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